Claude Vorilhon | history
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
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Strom Thurmond | history
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
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Carlos Fuentes | history
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Conrad Black | history
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
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T. Boone Pickens | history
In the history of America, we’ve never had an energy plan. We don’t even realize the resources we have available to us.
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Phyllis Schlafly | history
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
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Barney Frank | history
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don’t want to study the social sciences, because it’s not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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Azar Nafisi | history
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran’s ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
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Rob Sheffield | history
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first – forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.
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